Police: New Haven Man Squeezes Out Of Rolled Car, Runs From Police

Police arrest wanted man after he squeezes out of rolled car and runs from police.

NEW HAVEN — A 24-year-old driver was arrested Tuesday after he crashed, climbed out of the overturned car and ran from officers, police said.

Brandon Jones of Pond Street was arrested on drug and motor vehicle charges, Officer David B. Hartman said. He also was charged with criminal mischief because the out-of-control car destroyed a fence outside a senior citizen housing complex, Hartman said.

No one was injured.

According to Hartman, officers responded to the 800 block of Sherman Parkway shortly before 9:30 a.m. for a roll-over crash. The crash happened 100 feet from the New Haven Police Academy, where a group of officers was participating in outdoors firearms training.

Officers responded from the firing range, Hartman said, as did a sergeant who had been driving behind Jones.

Jones freed himself from the crumpled car and ran, police said. Officers apprehended him as he approached the road on which he lives.

Besides third-degree criminal mischief, Jones' charges are reckless driving, reckless endangerment, illegal possession of marijuana, illegal possession of marijuana with the intent to sell, sale of a controlled substance, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, operating a motor vehicle without insurance and operating a motor vehicle while under suspension.